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Prior to
NASCAR/USAR

Davis began racing in go-karts at the age of eight, competing in
his hometown of Gaffney around various tracks. He raced in the
karts for a number of years, and finished 3rd in the World Karting Association
finals at the age of 17. In 1998, Davis began racing Late
Model Stock Cars in various Southeastern tracks, gaining
experience and a handful of top-five finishes. He mostly competed
at Myrtle Beach Speedway, Greenville-Pickens
Speedway, and Timmonsville Speedway. During the 1999 season, he
made three starts in the USAR ProCup Series.

He competed for Rookie of the Year in 2000 in the USAR Pro-Cup
Competing in 20 events, Davis finished the season 17th in points
with top ten finishes. In 2001, he finished 11th in the Southern
Division points standing with eight top-ten finishes. After a
part-time USAR run in 2002, he joined Premiere Motorsports to run a
full-time schedule 2003. He won his first race at Smithton, Pennsylvania and
finished third in the Northern Division points, thirteenth for the
entire sanctioning body.

Early NASCAR
career

Davis made his NASCAR debut in 2001 at Nazareth
Speedway for Jimmy
Means. He qualified the #52 Broadway Motors Ford Taurus in 34th
place, but finished 36th after an early engine failure. races in
the Moy Racing team.
His first career start at Nazareth Speedway driving the #52. He
started in 34th and finished in 35th, but he did not finish due to
ignition failure. In the next two races, he finished 42nd at Dover International
Speedway and 40th at the Milwaukee Mile, but did not finish
either race. He made the switch over to the #77 Gestener Ford for
Moy Racing at the
second Dover race, where he finished 34th after a crash.

Davis made five starts in 2002. He ran the #77 Docutech/Gestetner Ford in his first 2002
race at Richmond, and had the
best weekend of his career at the time with a 29th place start and
26th place finish. For the rest of the season, Davis only drove the
#0 Chevrolet for his father's race team, Davis Motorsports. In four starts, his best
finish was a 24th at Memphis Motorsports Park.
Davis did not race at all in 2003, due to his USAR commitments, but
he played a large role as Davis Motorsports
began to run full-time in the series. He worked in the shop and
every now and then on the pit box, as the team made its first full
season.

2007 -
Present

2009 Nationwide #04 at Milwaukee

In 2007, Davis signed to drive for Kevin Harvick Incorporated
in the #77 Dollar
General Chevy for 13 races, sharing the car with Bobby Labonte and
Kevin Harvick.
Davis ran at Fontana starting 33rd but collided with Eric McClure who
ironically was driving the #0 car that Davis drove before. He
recovered to finish 30th, last on lead lap. He then made his first
road course start at Mexico where he started 37th and finished 31st
one lap down. He was replaced by Ron Hornaday Jr. prior to the race
at Milwaukee. Shortly after that, it was announced that had been
released by KHI, due to Dollar General wanting only Cup drivers in
the car. He ran the rest of the season in the #01 car fielded by
his family team.

For 2008, Davis began the season in the #0 car, but moved over
to the #01 after one race with RaceGirl sponsoring. This came after
his team in the opening race of 2008 was penalized due to an
illegal oil tank. The team was penalized 25 driver & owner
points, and crew chief Gene Allnut was suspended for 6 races. In
the interim, Davis had the 1st ever female crew chief in NASCAR's
top touring series at Las Vegas.[1] Kertus
at Talladega in 2008 avoided the "Big One" again like in 2005 and
he finished 12th on the lead lap falling out of the top 10 in turn
4. Following the race at Nashville where he blew his engine, Davis
left his father's team to pursue other racing options.[2] He was
24th in points at the time. He spent the rest of the season driving
the #49 for Jay Robinson. In 2009 Kertus will stay at Jay Robinson
in the #49 car. GetMoreVacations.com will sponsor Kertus for a few
races in the beginning of the season. After 14 races in 2009 with
JRR, Kertus went back to his father's team to drive the #04
Chevy.